Karen Melvin: 1 book
Building Colonial Cities of God
Mendicant Orders and Urban Culture in New Spain
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
This book tracks New Spain's mendicant orders past their so-called golden age of missions into the ensuing centuries and demonstrates that they had equally crucial roles in what Melvin terms the "spiritual consolidation" of cities. Beginning in the late sixteenth century, cities became home...
